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Khrushchev shifted back to his belligerent mode in November, when he gave the United States, Great Britain, and France six months to withdraw their troops from the sectors they still occupied in West ...

I think my school friends wanted to help me through my cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn't.

Could you please translate or interpret this sentence :   "one long, drawn-out sacrifice"   in this paragraph? Plato and Aristotle and the Stoics spoke of a life not of happiness, but of character, developing the ability to sustain pain and make the appropriate sacrifices—as that's really what life was in their time: one long, drawn-out sacrifice.

A friend of mine once described parenthood as “basically just following around a kid for a couple decades and making sure he doesn't accidentally kill himself—and you'd be amazed how many ways a kid can find to accidentally kill himself.